喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture inked letters being pressed down onto a sheet of paper, and lifted away. The same shapes come out again and again, each copy exactly like the last. One way to hold printing is to keep that press in view: sometimes the word means the pressing, sometimes one batch that came off it, sometimes the paper it produced — and once, a hand copying the look of it letter by letter.

可以想成上了墨的字母壓到紙上，再提起來。同樣的形狀一次又一次印出來，每一張都跟上一張一模一樣。printing 的幾…更多收起可以想成上了墨的字母壓到紙上，再提起來。同樣的形狀一次又一次印出來，每一張都跟上一張一模一樣。printing 的幾個意思，一種想法是都站在這台機器旁邊：有時指「壓下去」這個動作，有時指一次壓出來的那一批，有時指壓出來的那些紙；還有一次，是一隻手在模仿那個樣子，一個字母一個字母分開寫。

From the word’s history

The source analyses the word as print + -ing: the ending turns the action of printing into a noun, which is why the oldest and widest sense is the process itself.

來源資料把這個字拆成 print + -ing。-ing 把「印」這個動作變成名詞，所以最基本、範圍最廣的意思就是印刷這個過程本身；其他意思都是從這個動作名詞再走出去的。

Wiktionary entry for printing (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1797840125): "By surface analysis, print + -ing."

Two branches

機器在印：過程、一批、成品

這一家都還在機器旁邊，差別只在你看的是動作、是一次的產出，還是最後那疊紙。

noun · B1

The work or process of making books, newspapers, posters and other paper things with a machine that presses ink onto paper, and the industry built on that work.

印刷

手寫成印刷的樣子

機器退場，只留下它印出來的外觀：字母一個一個站好，彼此不相連。

noun · B1

A way of writing by hand in which you make each letter separately, in the shape of printed letters, instead of joining the letters of a word together.

不連筆的手寫字

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

printingnoun/ˈpɹɪntɪŋ/

  • 1

    The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.

    • In those days, printing was big business in this city. Giant web-fed presses churned out countless tons of printed matter annually.
  • 2

    Synonym of printed matter.

    • They delivered a huge batch of printing yesterday, so you can expect an invoice shortly.
  • 3

    Synonym of print run (“all the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch”).

    • She owns a copy of the first printing, which is a favorite among book collectors because some of the typos in it seem like Freudian slips.
  • 4

    Handwritten characters that are not joined up.

    • The instructions said, "Please sign your name and then print your name below your signature," so he wrote out his name underneath in the neatest printing that his hand could muster.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。